It sounds like a fact, it looks like a fact, it's accepted as fact, but it really isn't a fact: it's misunderstanding, it's ignorance, it's fantasy, it's deception, or the like.
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A lot of the stuff we hear on the daily news consists of fact similes, not necessarily facts. (ED. Is it a fact that the previous sentence is a fact simile? Which would that be, a conundrum or a paradox -- or a sort of paradox simile?)
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